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Film History Quiz 4
From Thompson and Bordwell's Film History Introduction
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
04/28/2008

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Term
What was an effect of the Paramount Decision of 1948?
Definition
the major Hollywood studios sold their chains of movie theaters
Term
What was not a cause of declining movie attendance in the years after World War II?
Definition
a decline in Hollywood production values in the wake of the Paramount Decision
Term
Why did Eastmancolor replace Technicolor as the standard color format for American films?
Definition
Eastmancolor film stock could be used in any camera
Many cinematographers believed Eastmancolor looked better than Technicolor in widescreen formats

Answer is A and B
Term
What was not a direct effect on the film industry of the competition from television?
Definition
the popularity of art house theaters
Term
What made drive-in theaters so successful?
Definition
they were built on cheap land close to the suburban population and had successful concession stand sales
Term
What film was pivotal in the struggle against film censorship in the years after the Paramount Decision?
Definition
The Miracle
Term
What is "roadshow" exhibition?
Definition
opening a film in only one theater per market and charging higher prices with assigned seating
Term
What term refers to the system of film production whereby an agent brings together a script and talent (stars, a director, etc.) to attract funding?
Definition
the package-unit system
Term
How was the influence of Citizen Kane seen in the Hollywood films of the years following it?
Definition
many films used flashbacks, deep focus, or long takes
Term
What post-War Hollywood genre is represented by the celebrated productions of MGM's Freed Unit?
Definition
musical
Term
Which of the following best characterizes the West German film industry in the years after World War II?
Definition
American films dominated the German market
Term
What characterizes the postwar European modernist cinema?
Definition
open-ended narratives
Term
What made Italian Neorealist films seem so realistic?
Definition
location shooting
critical examination of recent history
engagement with contemporary social problems

Answer is all of the above
Term
What distinguishes Neorealist narratives from more typical, mainstream ones?
Definition
all events are "flattened" to the same level of significance
Term
Which Roberto Rossellini film of 1945 shocked viewers when its heroine, played by Anna Magnani, was killed half-way through?
Definition
Open City
Term
Which Italian director combined an operatic style with sumptuous costumes and settings and a languid, pan-and-zoom camera technique?
Definition
Luchino Visconti
Term
Which Italian director was known for his mix of secular humanism and modernist de-dramatization techniques such as "empty intervals"?
Definition
Roberto Rossellini
Term
What was the effect of the Blum-Byrnes Agreement of 1946?
Definition
American imports to France increased dramatically
Term
What does not describe the French Tradition of Quality?
Definition
location shooting
Term
Which director in the postwar French cinema was known for his elaborate camera movements, controversial sexual subject matter, episodic narration, and reflexivity?
Definition
Max Ophuls
Term
Which postwar French director, who was also a writer and visual artist, made self-consciously "poetic" films drawing on mythology and fairy-tales?
Definition
Jean Cocteau
Term
Which of the following does not characterize the British film industry after World War II?
Definition
there was much competition between many small, independent firms, with no vertical integration or monopolistic control of the industry
Term
What form of film exhibition gained British films success with American audiences in the late 1940s?
Definition
art houses
Term
What effect did the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II have on Japanese film production?
Definition
many films were banned
Term
What sort of films did Japanese producers typically export to the west in the 1950s?
Definition
historical films
Term
What film is an example of the new humanism in Soviet cinema of the late 1950s?
Definition
The Cranes are Flying
Term
What does not characterize Chinese cinema in the late 1940s?
Definition
Chinese films were successful as exports to the USSR, Eastern Europe, and India
Term
What effect did the Great Leap Forward and its aftermath have on Chinese cinema?
Definition
regional film production increased
more films were made about Chinese minorities
a renewal of the historical film

Answer is all of the above
Term
What is true of post-partition Indian cinema?
Definition
virtually all Hindi films had several song and dance numbers
Term
Which Latin American country had the most productive film industry in the postwar years?
Definition
Mexico
Term
Which of the following was not one aspect of auteurist film criticism?
Definition
dismissal of European cinema as decadent and irrelevant
Term
Which film by Akira Kurosawa, which became popular in the West, innovated a complex flashback structure in which each account of the same event differs drastically from the others?
Definition
Rashomon
Term
What are characteristics of Kurosawa's style?
Definition
multiple camera and telephoto lens
Term
Which art cinema director consistently made use of symbolic locations, such as the road and the seashore, and used recurring characters such as the holy fool and the sensual whore?
Definition
Federico Fellini
Term
What best describes the films of Robert Bresson?
Definition
religious films shot in a restrained, austere style with subdued acting
Term
What is a general stylistic trend in New Cinemas of the 1960s?
Definition
discontinuity editing
long lenses
long takes

Answer is all of the above
Term
What does not characterize the French New Wave?
Definition
extreme modernist ambiguity
Term
What most internationally successful Italian genre of the 1960s?
Definition
spaghetti western
Term
What best characterizes the British "Kitchen Sink" trend in filmmaking of the 1950s and 1960s?
Definition
everyday realism set among the working class
Term
What was the significance of the Oberhausen Manifesto of 1962?
Definition
It let to the establishment of the Kuratorium Junger Deutsch Film (Commission for Young German Film)
It paved the way for a new German cinema which stressed the importance of the director as author
It voiced the younger generation's rejection of the German film establishment

Answer is all of the above
Term
Which New Cinema movement was characterized by one of its key figures as practicing an "aesthetics of hunger," calling attention to the suffering of the poor and offering political critique?
Definition
Brazilian Cinema Novo
Term
What trend was not important for postwar documentary production?
Definition
film newsreel
Term
Which French filmmaker directed the documentary Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog), a study of a Nazi concentration camp?
Definition
Alain Resnais
Term
What was not a technical innovation that led to Direct Cinema?
Definition
digital editing
Term
What not a significant trend in postwar avant-garde cinema?
Definition
cubist film
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